Lucky Girl

This man is AMAZING! He just cleaned our entire house top to bottom. I'm feeling like one pretty lucky girl :) I love you AB!

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In Other Birthday News...

So yesterday I posted about my Dad's milestone birthday but I've celebrated a few other birthdays since then. It seems like everyone I know has a birthday! Ok lame joke :)

This little guy turned 2 and his parents threw him a Cars themed birthday party. He not only loves the movie but toy cars in general. He could play with matchbox cars for hours.

My SIL Erin made this fantastic cake and her mom made the super cute cupcakes. Erin surfed the web to get some ideas on how to do the cake. I think it turned out great!

My friend Karla turned "29" so we went to the Waterfront Grill to celebrate with dinner and drinks. I think Waterfront might be my new fave in town. I love the variety of their menu and the food is delish!

Last week my MIL Melissa also hit a milestone birthday, 65! I don't think she is too excited about the number but she looks great and that's all it is anyway, a number! I'll tell you who can't wait to turn 65, my husband. He's salivating just thinking about all those senior discounts ;)

We drove to Edmond on the night of her birthday and took her out to Boulevard Steakhouse. None of us had ever been and it was quite a treat! I loved the ambiance and thought the food was fabulous! Watch out Mahogany I might have a new favorite steak place!

The Big Six-0

Last month my Dad hit a milestone birthday - the big six-0! We helped him celebrate by having an intimate get together at my parent's house that included our immediate family and some close family friends.

I was in charge of invitations and decorations! I am very lucky that my BFF is so creative! I had her make the invitations using this picture of my Dad.

Unfortunately I don't have an image of said invitations but they were fabulous! Thank you Katie!

On to the decorations, which I kept pretty simple. I picked up some cute 60 themed items at Party City to put on the mantle and Katie helped me make the Happy Birthday banner with her Cricut. I really like how the banner turned out and I'm excited that I can use it for future birthday celebrations. I also had some 6o themed confetti that I spread around some of the tables.

My mom had a cake made with the invitation as inspiration. Isn't it great?! And it gives you an idea of what the invitations looked like. Super cute!

Here's the whole crew :) (AB is such a giant compared to my family) We had lots of fun! It was great to see family friends that I hadn't seen in many years and it was also a treat to have my MIL Melissa (unfortunately not pictured-where were you Melissa?) there to celebrate with us!

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The Fifth Grade

Today at lunch my friend Karla was telling us she was a little anxious because her son had his first test of the school year today…Fifth Grade Social Studies. The continents, great lakes, etc, etc. She was praising his teacher for her use of mnemonics to help the kids remember various things such as Europe has five sons; Africa, Asia, Australia , Antarctica and America for all of the continents. This resulted in all of my friends reciting the mnemonics they learned in grade school and how they still remember them. I’ve always been jealous of everyone and their little mnemonics and learning songs. Apparently my grade school didn’t believe in this type of learning because I don’t know any fun songs or mnemonics. I can't even tell you what I learned in the fifth grade but I’ll tell you what I do remember: I relished my last year of recess. I loved my teacher, Mrs. Lang. My history teacher, Mr. Wiesner, drank warm milk every day (disgusting).My math teacher, Mr. Williams, was a creepo who had a mail-order bride from the Philippines, used to touch your back to see if you were wearing a bra and among other inappropriate things, asked a few girls if they had started their period (um yes he did eventually get fired for this). My fondest memory was reading the book Hatchet which happens to be my husband’s all time favorite book and may have been the last book he ever read – ha! So that pretty much sums up the fifth grade for me which might explain my major blonde moment of the day. One of the mnemonics mentioned at lunch was HOMES for the great lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior). As I was thinking of this mnemonic and reciting the names of the lakes in my head I got to one I couldn't think of and said – which lake starts with an R? The girls sitting near me thought they heard me wrong and gave me a weird look, so again I asked which one started with an R. It was killing me! I just couldn't figure it out until I realized the mnemonic HOMES doesn't even have an R in it which is why I couldn't think of the name of the lake! Yikes!

As I type this I’m thinking I may need to consider repeating the fifth grade, but then again I can tell you how to calculate Gross Domestic Product by using the mnemonic PIRATED: Profits of corporations & sole proprietors + Interest + Rental income + Adjustment to foreign income + Taxes + Employee salaries + Depreciation. So take that fifth grade!

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